Dear Eleanor

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| name = Dear Eleanor

| image = DearEleanorPoster.png

| caption = Theatrical release poster

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| director = Kevin Connolly

| producer = Caleb Applegate
Chuck Pacheco
Hillary Sherman

| writer = Cecilia Contreras
Amy Garcia

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| music = Aaron Zigman

| cinematography = Steven Fierberg

| editing = Jim Flynn

| studio = Nine Nights

| distributor = Destination Films

| released = {{Film date|2016|07|05}}

| runtime = 86 minutes{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/dear-eleanor-2016 |title=Dear Eleanor |access-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-date=January 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129033943/https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/dear-eleanor-2016 |url-status=dead }}

| country = United States

| language = English

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Dear Eleanor is a 2016 American film, directed by Kevin Connolly, and starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Josh Lucas, Liana Liberato, and Jessica Alba. Written by Cecilia Contreras and Amy Garcia, it is a coming of age story about two best friends traveling across the U.S. in 1962 to meet their childhood hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.{{Cite web |date=May 23, 2013 |title=Isabelle Fuhrman Joins Kevin Connolly-Helmed 'Dear Eleanor' |website=Deadline Hollywood |url=https://www.deadline.com/2013/05/isabelle-furhrman-dear-eleanor-movie-casting-kevin-connolly/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610151349/http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/isabelle-furhrman-dear-eleanor-movie-casting-kevin-connolly/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 10, 2013 |accessdate=June 6, 2013 }}{{Cite news |first=Ed |last=Sealover |date=February 14, 2013 |title=Hollywood comes to Colorado: 3 films to be made here under incentives program |newspaper=Denver Business Journal |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2013/02/14/hollywood-comes-to-colorado-3-films.html |accessdate=June 11, 2013 }}

Plot

{{More plot|date=July 2018}}In 1962, in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two teenage girls (Isabelle Fuhrman and Liana Liberato) break out of their normal life, jump in the car and embark on a trip across the country in search of the former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt. Their Thelma & Louise cross-country adventure is a mix of hilarious joy ride and an empowering personal odyssey that not only tests their friendship for the first time but also lands the girls in jail.

Cast

Isabelle Fuhrman as Maxine ”Max the Wax” Wax
Liana Liberato as Eleanor ”Ellie” Potter
Jessica Alba as Aunt Daisy
Josh Lucas as Frank Morris
Ione Skye as Charlotte
Luke Wilson as Bob Potter
Patrick Schwarzenegger as Bud
Joel Courtney as Billy
Paul Johansson as Hugh
Claire van der Boom as Caroline Potter

Production

Chuck Pacheco, Hillary Sherman and Caleb Applegate produced the film, which began shooting in Boulder County, Colorado on May 14, 2013. The town of Niwot doubled for 1960s town of Manteca, California.{{Cite news |first=Jeff |last=Jardin |title=Jardine: Small Colorado town becomes Manteca for film starring Jessica Alba |date=July 10, 2013 |newspaper=The Modesto Bee |url=http://www.modbee.com/2013/07/10/2801905/jardine-small-colorado-town-becomes.html |accessdate=July 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130714223610/http://www.modbee.com/2013/07/10/2801905/jardine-small-colorado-town-becomes.html |archivedate=July 14, 2013 |df=mdy }} Towns in Colorado's Front Range section of the Rocky Mountains, including Longmont, Lyons, Nederland, Boulder and Hygiene, were also used as locations.{{Cite news |first=Drew |last=Albee |title=Boulder County gets its close-up with 'Dear Eleanor' debut |date=May 8, 2016 |newspaper=Daily Camera |url=http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_29863052/boulder-county-gets-its-close-up-dear-eleanor |accessdate=May 8, 2016 }} Filming took place in Downtown Denver at the Paramount Theatre before shooting wrapped in mid-June.{{Cite news|date=June 12, 2013 |title=Sneak peek at filming of 'Dear Eleanor' in Denver |publisher=9news.com |url=http://www.9news.com/news/article/340651/343/Sneak-peek-at-filming-of-Dear-Eleanor-in-Denver |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615071856/http://www.9news.com/news/article/340651/343/Sneak-peek-at-filming-of-Dear-Eleanor-in-Denver |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 15, 2013 |accessdate=June 14, 2013 }} Re-shoots occurred approximately a year later. A Colorado state economic incentive program helped to attract the production, which would spend $2.5 million in the state.{{Cite news |first=Aldo |last=Svaldi |date=February 14, 2013 |title=Colorado uses incentives to lure three feature films |newspaper=The Denver Post |url=http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22593953/state-uses-incentives-lure-three-feature-films |accessdate=June 6, 2013 }}